Developmental mechanisms of threshold evolution in a polyphenic beetle.

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Polyphenic development is thought to play a pivotal role in the origin of morphological novelties. However, little is known about how polyphenisms evolve in natural populations, the developmental mechanisms that may mediate such evolution, and the consequences of such modification for patterns of morphological variation. Here we examine the developmental mechanisms of polyphenism evolution in highly divergent...

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